In deep water for Sport Relief
It's no secret that I love swimming. Happiest in water, from the moment I waded into Lough Derg in Tipperary as a little girl on my Summer holidays, or ran into the sea at Ainsdale Beach in Southport.
What I don't say much about is that I'm a bit afraid of some types of water - namely the dark, cold type with wildlife in it.
So of course I said YES to the Sport Relief challenge of swimming a mile in a dark, cold lake with wildlife in it!
A friend of mine who swam the Channel is helping me overcome this silly fear and training starts soon in a very cold outdoor pool in Tooting in South London.
Once that's underway we'll tackle swimming in the dark, and dodging the wildflife. Wish me luck. I promise not to be a wimp.
Shelagh Fogarty presents 5 live Breakfast.
You can support Shelagh here.
Find out more about Sport Relief here.
Comment number 1.
At 11:24 20th Jan 2010, Tempus Fugit wrote:Good luck with that - I too don't like water that you can't see the bottom of. Or what's lurking in it...
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Comment number 2.
At 13:40 20th Jan 2010, carrie wrote:Tooting Lido will have guns and supermarket trolleys lurking below.
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Comment number 3.
At 10:07 21st Jan 2010, carrie wrote:I refer Five Live listeners to the comments at the base of Politics, politics, politics on Victoria Derbyshire's blog page. Steve Bowbrick has closed the subject because the comments are off topic. Please could he note that when a presenter invites DAILY her listeners to comment via her blog, that the least they can expect is to have an up to date page to write their comments on.
It is outrageous that there is nowhere to comment. It is outrageous that Mr Bowbrick cuts off consumers who pay his wages!
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Comment number 4.
At 10:09 21st Jan 2010, zelda wrote:Agree completely carrie. Pathetic.
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Comment number 5.
At 10:15 21st Jan 2010, carrie wrote:Made an official complaint. Boy am I mad at his comments. The least he could have done was to say that he would ensure daily pages on that site.
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At 10:23 21st Jan 2010, zelda wrote:It's just so typical of the BBC now. They can't even get a fresh blog organised each day and then they have the nerve to close one down as it had 'off topic' comments on - what do they expect?????
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Comment number 7.
At 12:10 21st Jan 2010, Tempus Fugit wrote:"Steve Bowbrick has closed the subject because the comments are off topic."
This one will likely go the same way now, don't you think?
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Comment number 8.
At 13:17 21st Jan 2010, carrie wrote:Groundhog Day: What is so wrong with a comments messageboard or even doing what is advertised on the programme: ".........contact me via my blog..........."? Or telling the truth, that the BBC only wants praise, not comment or discussion.
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Comment number 9.
At 17:37 21st Jan 2010, Tempus Fugit wrote:Please, please, please, please, please bring back Mayo!
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Comment number 10.
At 17:49 22nd Jan 2010, Tempus Fugit wrote:Incidentally, this blog relates to Shelagh Fogerty and the Breakfast programme so whinging about the blog for the Victoria Derbyshire Programme probably isn't best done here.
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At 21:31 22nd Jan 2010, ryanw wrote:Carrie -- completely agree with your sentiments. His actions made me angry too. I posted a similar message on the Asking Questions thread. What's he doing? Isn't he suppose to encourage conversation not limit it?
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Comment number 12.
At 21:40 23rd Jan 2010, carrie wrote:Tempus Fugit, as a mere listener, I am not able to begin a comment on this page or any other since the messageboards closed. As this Blog is clearly entitled "Behind the scenes at BBC Radio 5 live" at top right, and this chapter on Sheila is merely that, it is the only place to complain vociferously about VD failing often to open a new blog page for the day, as she claims daily and live, at the top of her programme, to "contact me via my blog".
OK?
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Comment number 13.
At 10:57 24th Jan 2010, Tempus Fugit wrote:Indeed, but if you pursue that course here the plethora of posts unrelated to the topic of this blog entry will see it going the way of "Politics, politics, politics." Kapeesh?
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Comment number 14.
At 12:54 12th Mar 2010, Tempus Fugit wrote:What's the latest on Shelagh's swim challenge, then? Any chance of an update? I've been abroad for a few weeks and the last I heard was that Shelagh was going for a swim in a wetsuit. Um, any chance of a pic of that, hee hee...?
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Comment number 15.
At 07:49 3rd Oct 2010, Gaz wrote:All this user's posts have been removed.Why?
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